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A 19-year-old Delaware City man has been arrested on burglary and weapons charges following a joint investigation by the Delaware State Police and the Delaware City Police Department.

Brady T. Rickard, of the first block of Washington St., has been charged with burglary in the second degree, theft of a firearm and selling stolen property, said Chief David L. Baylor of the Delaware City Police Department.

According to the news release:

The investigation began Thursday when officers from the Delaware City Police Department responded to a residence in the 200 block of Washington St. to investigate a residential burglary. During the course of the investigation, officers learned that firearms had been stolen from the residence.

Shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday, an alert clerk at the Cabela’s store at the Christiana Mall reported an individual was attempting to sell firearms, and he suspected the firearms were stolen. Troopers from Delaware State Police Troop 6 responded to the store, where they apprehended Rickard and took custody of the firearms. An investigation into the stolen firearms revealed they were taken during a residential burglary in Delaware City.

Rickard was turned over to the Delaware City Police Department, where he was processed and arraigned.

He was released on $5,500 unsecured bond. However, because he was out on bail facing burglary-related charges, he was taken to the Howard Young Correctional Institution in Wilmington for a parole violation.